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Operation Lone Star has unleashed a windfall for private contractors cashing in on a four-year-long emergency shopping spree.

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More than half of Australian companies have improved their gender pay gap, compared to last year. But for every $1 a man earns, women, on average, still only earn 78 cents.

The gender pay gap is not about "equal pay for equal work", but aims to quantify the difference between the average earnings of women and men in the workforce.

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Anyone can view the gender pay gaps at companies that employ more than 5 million Australian workers, and their plans to reduce the gap.

From airlines to banks, fixing Canada’s competition problem starts with smarter domestic reforms.

The chancellor of the University of Helsinki told a newspaper last month that US authorities had pressured the university to remove certain terms from its press release about Fulbright scholarships.

Experts expect Trump’s team to lean on legal arguments, not science, to take down EPA’s 16-year-old endangerment finding.

WHAT IF INDIGENOUS CONSENT IS NOT RESPECTED? ACCESS TO EDUCATION FOR INDIGENOUS CHILDREN DURING THE PANDEMIC.

Controversial Internet influencer Andrew Tate and his brother are reportedly on a private jet bound for the United States, leaving Romania where they have been embroiled in a legal case alleging human trafficking and sexual exploitation.

• Billionaire wealth surged by over $300 billion in the first month of the year. It would take 15 million workers an entire year to make as much money.
• Since G20 Finance Ministers agreed to work together to effectively tax the super-rich in July 2024, billionaires have pocketed over $1 trillion in new wealth.
• More than 50 organizations from across the world are urging G20 leaders to tax the super-rich to end extreme inequality, and invest in climate, environmental and social action.